Supreme Court could eliminate affirmative action in university admissions as it considers high-profile challenges against Harvard and University of North Carolina

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "I represent so many communities in which affirmative action benefits us all the time," Agustín León-Sáenz, a first-generation immigrant from Ecuador and a sophomore at Harvard, told Insider.
61% :The Supreme Court has over the years confronted the role of race in university admissions and repeatedly maintained the constitutionality of affirmative action.
52% : After both of the universities denied those claims and lower courts sided with them, SFFA turned to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to abolish race as a factor in admissions and to overturn Grutter v. Bollinger, a nearly 20-year-old landmark decision that upheld affirmative action.
49% : But in practice, ending affirmative action policies at major universities has meant dramatic drops in the number of students of color accepted to those schools.
47% : "We think that people should be treated as individuals - not on the basis of their membership in a racial group," Wen Fa, a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation who filed a legal brief supporting SFFA, told Insider, calling affirmative action efforts "wrong and pernicious."
45% : They and other advocates of the policy argue that affirmative action is about leveling the playing field, granting historically underrepresented groups the opportunity to access a higher education.
40% : Both the University of Michigan and the University of California, in legal briefs filed to the Supreme Court, say their push to create diverse classes without affirmative action policies - which were banned in both states more than 15 years ago - have largely failed.

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